John Miranda

Ads paused. Amazon should be listening to seller feedback before rolling out drastic changes that hurt small business in a huge way. Amazon has a long long history of fee increases, sometimes just days after they announce at Accelerate “no new fees this year”, they announce another fee, it’s out of touch

Amazon is scrambling with scattered emails because we pushed back. Good. Small businesses always get ignored and crushed. Not this time! This is not a win yet. They have not rolled anything back. They are delaying, deflecting, and trying to kill momentum. Do not stop now. The April 15 Amazon Ads boycott is still on. Join MDS in this push. At 12am tonight, post your screenshot with budgets capped at $1 or campaigns paused.

I polled 100+ founders doing $1M+ a year out of our group of 800. Amazon’s latest seller changes are not just “annoying.” They are draining growth capital. 52% said the cash flow hit from Amazon’s ad spend + DD+7 changes will be over $100k. 28% said over $250k. 79% said the recent policy changes impact more than 25% of their free cash. This means less payroll, less innovation, more stock outs, less PPC, fewer launches, and more pressure. These are average businesses already making single digit margins paying 70 cents of every dollar to Amazon. Amazon says it supports small business. These numbers say otherwise. @WSJ @business @nytimesbusiness @BusinessInsider @ReutersBiz @CNBC @APBusiness Please reach out to get the full story.

My community has $15b of yearly sales on Amazon with 800+ members. These are small businesses. They employ real Americans and support local communities. They do not have large margins to absorb shocks. Every year Amazon squeezes them more and supports overseas Chinese sellers instead of local American businesses. Now Amazon is hitting sellers with even more of a squeeze all back to back: 1.Amazon has moved many sellers to DD+7 Meaning funds are held until 7 days after delivery, not simply paid out on the old cadence. 2.Amazon just added a 3.5% fuel/logistics surcharge on fulfillment fees. 3.To top it off now Amazon Ads charges will be pulled directly from disbursements rather than floating on a credit card. That combination matters. Amazon already forces sellers into an environment where ads dominate visibility. So now the same platform that pressures brands to spend more on ads is also tightening payout timing and pulling more cash out before sellers ever see it. For a very large business, this is just a minor annoyance. But for a small business making payroll just got 50x harder. Less cash on hand means: less inventory more stockouts more debt more strain on small teams and ultimately a worse customer experience This is not “supporting small business.” It is starving the brands that create so much of the value customers come to Amazon for. @WSJ @business @nytimesbusiness @BusinessInsider @ReutersBiz @CNBC @APBusiness If you’re covering Amazon, local communities hit by a hard economy and large companies trying to squeeze hardworking Americans hit me up.

Malicious attack by bad actor on our best selling Amazon product (2nd time). Competitor inserted "adult keywords" into the back-end of our listing. ASIN still suppressed after 10 days, Brand Registry & Seller Support yet to activate. Our product is kid-safe. This abuse has to stop. Seller Support says 10 days to investigate-bad for business! Case ID 18364277661 @dharmeshmehta @amznsellerhelp @AmazonHelp

@amznsellerhelp @michaelpatron0 @ShinghiD @amznsellerhelp our same listing was hacked again on August 25, the listing is suppressed yet again as an adult product, competitor inserts "adult sex toys for women". How are you preventing the systemic abuse? This is business crital, destructive abuse and has to stop.

@randawakes Agreed, and on a separate thread with @michaelpatron0 and @ShinghiD yesterday, I gave them an update that the Seller Abuse team's working on a larger solution to this. 10 days feels too long, so let me see what we can do to try and speed that up. Would you mind DMing us the details on the listing? - Ron

Our best selling Amazon product was maliciously attacked by a competitor who inserted "adult keywords" into the back-end of our listing.  Our product is a kid-safe product.  Amazon flagged the listing as an adult product, so our product is not searchable and sales are down 80%, business critical.  This abuse has to stop. Seller support says 10 days to investigate! @dharmeshmehta @amznsellerhelp @AmazonHelp

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